Jonathan dwight kellogg



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J. D. KELLOGG. HOOK.

No. 517,221. Patented Mar. 27,1894.

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NORTHAMPTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

HOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 517,221, dated March 27, 1894.

Application filed September 30,1893. Serial No. 486,837. (Nomodeh) To all whom it may concern:

Be it known thatl, JONATHAN DWIGHT KEL- LOGG, a citizen of the United States, residing at Northampton, in the county of Hampshire and. State of Massachusetts,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hooks, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to garments hooks, and, more particularly, to garment hooks of the class which are provided with means for preventing accidental disengagement of the same from the eyes with which they co-operate.

The object of the invention is to provide an improved hook of this class, of simple and practical construction, admitting of being rapidly and cheaply manufactured, and which cannot become accidentally disengaged from its eye but may be separated therefrom by hand with ease and readiness whenever desired.

The invention consists in the hook of novel construction which I now will proceed to describe with reference to the accompanying drawings, and afterward will define in the claims at the close of this specification.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective showing a hook embodying my invention in engagement with an eye of usual form. Fig. 2 is a View of the said hook in side elevation. Fig. 3 is a similar View showing a modification.

At 1, in the drawings, is shown the bill of the hook, at 2 the body or shank thereof, and at 3, 3 the securing eyes or loops at the free end of the shank.

The hook preferably is made from a single piece of Wire, which first is doubled upon itself so as to form two parallel portions, these being bent into U-form to give form to the hook, and the free ends thereof being bent into the required shape to produce the securing loops or eyes, the latter occupying positions on opposite sides of the middle line of the shank.

A characteristic feature of my improved hook is the fact that the free sides of the securing loops or eyes 3, 3 thereof are raised above the plane of the body or shank 2, so as bill The said free sides preferably incline upwardly toward the bill, and also inwardly toward the bend 4 of the hook, and the extremities of the wire overlie the body or shank 2. The raised sides of the securing loops or eyes 3, 3, substantially close the said throat or entrance under the bill, the interval or space between the proximate surfaces of the said raised sides and the bill being less than the thickness of the eye 5, so as that the eye 5 cannot be withdrawn from the space under the bill except on the application of force sufficient to wedge apart the free end of the bill and the securing loops or eyes. The amount of force required is not excessive, however, inasmuch as the action of the eye in passing between the proximate portions of the bill and securing loops or eyes is exerted at the free end of the bill, where the advantage due to the spring or elasticity of such part is most manifest. In Figs. 1 and 2 the free sides of the securing loops or eyes 3, 3 occupy positions about midway between the inner faces of the body or shank and the bill. In Fig. 3 the said sides are in contact with the upper face of the body or shank, this form being adopted when a thin flat hook is desired.

When my improved hook is engaged with an eye 5, any movement of the parts rela tively to each other will be arrested as soon as the eye contacts with the free sides of the securing loops or eyes 3, 3, and in the form shown in Figs. 1 and 2 the eye 5 will tend naturally to pass into the angle 6 between the said securing loops or eyes and the shank 2. The extremities of the piece of wire of which the hook is formed are carried toward each other at the adjacent sides of the securing loops or eyes 3, 3, and preferably touch each other, as shown in Fig. 1. Such extremities preferably are curved in continuance of the curves of the securing loops or eyes 3, 3, and thereby is produced the V-shaped depression 7 located immediately beneath the bill I. This depression facilitates greatly the passage of the rounded portions of the eye 5 between the hill 1 and the upturned portions of the securing loops or eyes 3, 3.

An important advantage of my hook is the fact that it admits of being stayed or bound by overlying stitches applied throughout the entire length of the shank 2, whereas other IOC hooks provided with means for preventing their accidental disengagement from the cooperating eyes have been constructed, sometimes, in such manner as to prevent them from being stayed except for a part, only, of their length. As will be apparent, one, only, of the securing loops or eyes 3, 3, may be raised above the plane of the body or shank of the hook, in the manner shown, and the other may lie in the plane of the said bodyor shank.

What I claim is- 1. The improved garment hook provided with a securing loop or eye 3, which is raised above the plane of the body or shank of the hook into the throat or entrance at the free extremity of the bill and thereby fitted to prevent accidental disengagement of the hook from its co-operating eye, substantially as described.

2. The improved garment hook provided with upturned securing loops or eyes 3, 3 which are raised above the plane of the body or shank of the hook into the throat or entrance at the free extremity of the bill and thereby are fitted to detain the co-operating eye and prevent accidental dis-engagement thereof, the said securing loops or eyes having between them the V-shaped space 7, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JONATHAN DWIGHT KELLOGG.

Witnesses:

H. P. FIELD, A. J. ALDRICH. 

